intuition
English
Alternative forms
- intuïtion (pedantic)
Etymology
From Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitiō (“a looking at, immediate cognition”), from Latin intueor (“to look at, consider”), from in- (“in, on”) + tueor (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”).
Noun
intuition (countable and uncountable, plural intuitions)
- Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics), volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4:
- The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of
intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions
about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure.
The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become stand-
ardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the
well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the
ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or
not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
- A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
Usage notes
The term has been used with at least the following adjectives: artistic, emotional, linguistic, medical, mental, moral, physical and spiritual.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- Gettier intuition
- intuit
- intuitional
- intuitionism
- intuitionist
- intuitionistic
- intuition line
- intuitive
- line of intuition
Translations
immediate cognition without the use of rational processes
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perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty
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References
- “intuition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “intuition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Danish
Declension
Declension of intuition
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | intuition | intuitionen | intuitioner | intuitionerne |
genitive | intuitions | intuitionens | intuitioners | intuitionernes |
References
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin intuītiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɥi.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
intuition f (plural intuitions)
- (uncountable, philosophy) intuition (cognitive faculty)
- (countable) intuition, hunch
- premonition
Derived terms
- intuitionner
- intuitionnel
Related terms
Further reading
- “intuition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Declension
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | intuition | intuitionen | intuitioner | intuitionerna |
Genitive | intuitions | intuitionens | intuitioners | intuitionernas |
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